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Three women, one with an infant, are piled upon an overloaded cart. The carter, at the ready, stands near three reluctant horses. A man on horseback and his dog is nearby, either a member of the party, or seeing to their departure. This is set in a rural area, with a structure, trees, and another cart in the background. Thomas Rowlandson’s Migrants (1780) depicts a group of people potentially on the move. Although it was drawn as a scene of Georgian England, it could very well have been Virginia of the Colonial period.